Tagged: WWII

30 Aug

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Forget Mad Men, Ukrainian youth are crazy for the Soviet 60s

by · August 30, 2012 · 1 Comment

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A crescent of twinkling lights and the blown-out mouth of a comic book style submarine cave are the last I see of Balaklava before we fly off the side of the road. We’re in Crimea, a little semi-island to the south of Ukraine and the east of Russia. Most Americans my age would know this [...]

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06 Jun

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Japantown’s Panama Hotel hides a treasure trove of history

by · June 6, 2012 · 1 Comment

A historic picture from pre-internment Japantown, on display in the Panama Hotel. (Photo by Sihanouk Mariona)

In 1942, in a fervor of wartime paranoia, President Roosevelt ordered Japanese-Americans into internment camps for the duration of WWII. The internment had an especially large impact in Seattle’s Japantown, where Japanese-Americans, many of them US-born citizens, were forced to abandon their homes and businesses almost overnight. Before they were led away to the camps, some [...]

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